Career Book 1 from Spica Publishing

[Gruffty the Hiver]

Oh yeah, btw:

Spica Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Career Book 1 print edition!

Featuring a high-gloss, saddle-stitched, full colour cover, within its 36 pages Career Book 1 offers the same character generation options available in the pdf, except in book you can hold in your hand!
Career Book 1 can only be ordered direct from Spica Publishing at the introductory offer price of £ 8.00, so click here to order your copy today!

Please note that Spica Publishing does not set the cost of shipping charges and is not responsible for the amount of time ordered items take to reach you.

 

[TravellerArt]

Poor little Dewey was the orange one, aaaah

Yeah, Beech is actually a liddle fat orange with a white stripe droid dude , pottering around a graphics design studio, sweeping the floor.... :lol: :lol: :wink:

BTW The little, fat and pottering around a graphics design studio, sweeping the floor are all spot on :lol:

 

[lastbesthope]

:lol:

Postage seems to be only 78 p in the UK, not bad.

LBH

 

[Anonymous]

Will they be available for the US as well?

 

[Gruffty the Hiver]

Will they be available for the US as well?

Indeed, you can order one direct from Spica Publishing and it will be sent to you direct.

 

[Gruffty the Hiver]

:lol:

Postage seems to be only 78 p in the UK, not bad.

LBH

Hehehe! Yeah if what you order + packing weighs 100 g or less! :lol:

 

[lastbesthope]

Well that's what the checkout said when I ran it through as a test, haven't actually ordered yet. I'm tightening the purse strings until I get at least some of my Xmas shopping paid for :lol:

LBH

 

[Gruffty the Hiver]

Well that's what the checkout said when I ran it through as a test, haven't actually ordered yet. I'm tightening the purse strings until I get at least some of my Xmas shopping paid for :lol:

LBH

Hehehe! In know what you mean!

 

[Allensh]

There's a review up on Freelance Traveller...

..I know because I wrote it

http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/reviews/rttspicacareer1.html

Allen

 

[lastbesthope]

Just curious, will the print version be equivalent to the recently updated pdf?

LBH

 

[Gruffty the Hiver]

Just curious, will the print version be equivalent to the recently updated pdf?

LBH

Indeed. The master file for the print edition is, in fact, the pdf that can be bought and downloaded from DTRPG.com. Thus all print editions will have exactly the same content as the pdf.

 

[zanwot]

I bought this career book, it is very good, but I have a major problem with the clergy career which is bugged.

I started working on a clergy careeer myself, came to the same assignements, and there are some serious skill problems in spica's list of kills:
* The big problem is: NO ADVOCATE SKILL FOR THE PREACHER !!! If you read the skill description of advocate you will see it is the primary skill of a preacher! Not persuade or anything else.
* The whole litterate aspect seems way too turned down. Religious people, at least those members of large chuches, are very educated, sometimes only in their field but sometimes they are very well educated in very diverse fields (don't think nobody in the vatican know's about hard science, it is quite the contrary).
I would replace the "social science (any)" of high education by "any science (any)" and make "social science (any)" available in the service skills.

On a side note, I regret the absence of the "holst" skill in bounty hunter, but maybe that skill was overpowered. Am I the only one who remembers that skill? Actually maybe one could create it as a specialty of gun combat.

 

[rust]

* The big problem is: NO ADVOCATE SKILL FOR THE PREACHER !!! If you read the skill description of advocate you will see it is the primary skill of a preacher! Not persuade or anything else.

I do not know the text of the English version of the skill description, but in
the German version Advocate / Rechtswissenschaft is a purely legal skill,
and would not fit a preacher well (unless he was an expert on canonical
law, of course).

* The whole litterate aspect seems way too turned down. Religious people, at least those members of large chuches, are very educated, sometimes only in their field but sometimes they are very well educated in very diverse fields (don't think nobody in the vatican know's about hard science, it is quite the contrary).

Judging from the time it takes to study one of the hard sciences, I would
think that a preacher with a science degree got this degree while following
a Scientist career for at least one term of service, not while working in his
Clergy career.

Just some thoughts ...

 

[zanwot]

I do not know the text of the English version of the skill description, but in
the German version Advocate / Rechtswissenschaft is a purely legal skill,
and would not fit a preacher well (unless he was an expert on canonical
law, of course).

Advocate:
A gives a knowledge of common law (etc). It also gives the character experience in oratory, debate and public speaking, making it an excellent skill for lawyers and politicians.

 

[rust]

Ah, thank you, I see your point.

 

[zanwot]

Judging from the time it takes to study one of the hard sciences, I would
think that a preacher with a science degree got this degree while following
a Scientist career for at least one term of service, not while working in his
Clergy career.

Of course, but that does not change that a prerequisite for being a catholic priest for example is to have a degreee in theology (=social sciences (any)), so that skill should be available somehow to all preachers, which it is not.
And you can be sure that withiout actually getting degreees in hard science many religious get seriously educated in diverse sciences, as part of their job.

 

[rust]

Of course, but that does not change that a prerequisite for being a catholic priest for example is to have a degreee in theology (=social sciences (any)), so that skill should be available somehow to all preachers, which it is not.

While this is true for ordained Catholic priests, it is not necessarily true
for most of the other religions, not even for many of the Christian ones,
and especially the missionaries often have a professional education, but
not much training in theology.

Besides, all Clergy career characters can get the Social Science skill
through Advanced Education (which a study of theology truly is, I think)
and / or through Advancement.

So, while I see your point, I think one would only have to make some
minor change in the table for some few religions, while they fit most
of the existing religions quite well.

 

[zanwot]

Actually I don't agree, as even if in other religions theology is not allways necessary, I am pretty certain most preachers, in whatever religion, know at least some theology. That is a bit the pioint usually. The point is in the rules as is, without education 8+ it is impossible to even get theology 0 for preachers. I find that strange. Within organised religions, I am pretty certain you don't really get people who become preachers who don't know anything about theology.

I even feel Theology (=social science) should be available in the service skills so that a starting religious gets the level at 0.
I must admit I find strange that most rolls within the clergy career depend more on intelligence than education actually, but that could be my subjective catholic view, or at least view from someone vaguely informed about the workings of certain churches, even though I am not overly religious. The point is at least Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, various *protestant* religions, and many other religions (boudism etc) have a very strong insistance on theological education, even though not all will then be interested in other domains of knowledge.

 

[rust]

After thinking it through, I do agree, and will insert it as one of the ser-
vice skills in my German translation of the table for my campaign.

 

[Gruffty the Hiver]

We never claimed CB1 is absolutely perfect, by any means. I appreciate the feedback, zanwot, and I see where you're coming. I'll take it bakc to the Spica Publishing guys.

If you've bought Career Book1 and have feedback of any kind, you can email Spica Publishing direct, via the email address on p. 3 of Career Book 1. We welcome feedback from customers!